Unknown over Arlington, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
9/23/2014 at 8:27 (looked at the clock) I was sitting in the driveway facing an eastward direction, I leaned forward and noticed a light kinda like a spotlight shining around in the sky. Then the light, which was a blue-ish color, shined directly in my direction for split second, then swung upwards and went black. I opened the door got out to look and nothing, gone, no sounds or anything. Ok, I know it was NOT a helicopter, they don't normally climb to commercial jet altitude, which is about where this was, say about 30-35,000 feet. It wasn't a reflection off the windshield, I tried to recreate it just in case and couldn't. It wasn't a commercial jet, I see those all the time, it wasn't a satellite, I see them too. I cant explain what that was. I tried to scan the area afterwards to see if I could detect any movement without lights but I didn't see anything.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113838). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-20 → 2014-10-07
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